Félix Houphouët-Boigny

As soon as he touched down at Abidjan's Felix Houphouët-Boigny airport on his return from the 19-20 July fifth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing, President Alassane Dramane Ouattara briefed the press on China's plans to invest some US$3-5 billion in Côte d'Ivoire...

Government newspapers such as Fraternité Matin and Le Patriote rejoiced at Ouattara’s meeting with US President Barack Obama on 29 July, pointing out that he was the first Ivorian president to be received at the White House since Founding President Félix Houphouët-Boigny...

Ouattara, who has majority support in the north and substantial backing in the centre, partly because of his alliance with supporters of the late founding President, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, has to turn his diplomatic backing into real pressure...

Named after the late Founding President, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, the opposition coalition, the Rassemblement des Houphouëtistes pour la Démocratie et la Paix (RHDP), is purely a marriage of convenience...

Everywhere, even in Gagnoa, there have been protests and demonstrations, organised by the opposition coalition, the Rassemblement des Houphouëtistes pour la Démocratie et la Paix (RHDP, named after the country’s founding President, Félix Houphouët-Boigny)...

Yet no current leader - Presidents Laurent Gbagbo, Paul Biya, Blaise Compaoré or Denis Sassou-Nguesso - can fulfil the role pioneered by Côte d'Ivoire's President Félix Houphouët-Boigny and continued by the 'Grand Camarade'...